Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62. Actual Deaths May Be 1,052. (NYT)

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/08/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll.html
Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62.
Actual Deaths May Be 1,052.
By FRANCES ROBLES, KENAN DAVIS, SHERI FINK and SARAH ALMUKHTAR | DEC. 8, 2017

Homes were flattened. Power was knocked out. And all across Puerto Rico, bodies began showing up at morgues.

Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury but the government there has reported an official death toll far lower than the devastation suggests.



A review by The New York Times of daily mortality data from Puerto Rico’s vital statistics bureau indicates a significantly higher death toll after the hurricane than the government there has acknowledged.

The Times’s analysis found that in the 42 days after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm, 1,052 more people than usual died across the island. The analysis compared the number of deaths for each day in 2017 with the average of the number of deaths for the same days in 2015 and 2016.

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1. I was hearing today about amputations in Florida

for folks coming from Puerto Rico - many diabetics could not get their meds.